Word: crudely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...illegal for two oilmen in one State to agree with two oilmen in another State to limit their joint production of crude petroleum. Their agreement, the U. S. holds, is a conspiracy in restraint of trade...
...Clement Calhoun Young. 60, onetime schoolteacher and realtor (lower right, front cover). While oil gushed from his State's fields at the rate of about 769,000 barrels per day, Gov. Young was prepared to tell his conferees something of his State's efforts to limit crude oil and gas production. California has a State Oil Umpire (F. C. Van Diesne) to curtail production. Potential production is estimated by a general engineering committee of the oil operators and from these estimates Umpire Van Diesne prepares his orders for allowable production. His most recent order is calculated to clip...
Following general advances in the price of crude oil. Standard Oil of Indiana and Sinclair Refining (subsidiary of Sinclair Consolidated) announced increases in the wholesale price of gasoline (½? to 1? a gal- lon on carload lots). Meanwhile production continued to ride boisterously in advance of previous figures and President Hoover himself was moved to call an oil-restriction conference which, meeting...
Professor James Flack Norris (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) told of researches into the possible products from petroleum waste (crude oil after gasoline and other products have been extracted). Fresh attacks upon this problem have already yielded a new alcohol, called isopropyl. The peculiarity of this alcohol is that, unlike all others, it has no exhilarating effect when taken into the human system. If it can be used in industry there will be no temptation for bootleggers to "denature" it and sell it for drink...
...nimble dance steps that by the time she comes out for her third encore, the house is hers, the song about her boy friend's "shushpenders," and her dance "Subway Shuffle," completely captivating the audience. As for Miss Foster, we are forced to admit that her playlet is rather crude, but her acting, plus her dark hair and bright eyes--well it was a good...